Katie Rife: Best Films of 2017, as published by The A.V. Club
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- Lady Macbeth — William Oldroyd
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- Lucky — John Carroll Lynch
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- I, Tonya — Craig Gillespie